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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

John Stuart Mill


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🦋 Overtaking

Just a note: It is annoying and frustrating to me, to realize what a charge I get out of passing cars on the freeway. Seems really juvenile and useless; but somehow every time I pass somebody I just have this nice feeling of having gotten one over...

posted morning of Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

...don't want to just get there fast, want to be first...

posted afternoon of January 22nd, 2009 by Randolph

Yeah, that's exactly the impulse -- it's not a thought process, thinking about it I know the relative positioning of me and the other cars is completely inconsequential -- but there's a subconscious drive to be at the front of the line.

posted evening of January 22nd, 2009 by Jeremy

Yeah...I experience it while walking, but not while driving. I watch other people do it in amazement.

posted evening of January 23rd, 2009 by Randolph

while walking

Hm, I've experienced this as well come to think of it. I guess I don't notice it as much maybe because I've been walking all my life and only driving regularly for a few years now.

posted morning of January 24th, 2009 by Jeremy

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